Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield.
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Enchiridion medicum: containing the causes, signs, and cures of all those diseases, that do chiefly affect the body of man: divided into three books. With alphabetical tables of such matters as are therein contained. Whereunto is added a treatise, De facultatibus medicamentorum compositorum, & dosibus. / By Robert Bayfield.
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Bayfield, Robert, b. 1629.
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London, :: Printed by E. Tyler for Joseph Cranford, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Phenix in S. Pauls Church-yard,
1655.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. IX.
LAGOPHTHALMƲS; or the hare-eye:
* 1.1 In this affect the Patient sleepeth with his eyes open, because his eye-lids are so short, that it will not cover them.
The cause is either internal or external;
* 1.2 in∣ternal, as by a carbuncle, impostume, or ulcer: external as by a wound made by a sword, fall, burning, or the like.
That which happens by burning and a car∣buncle, &c. is held uncurable;
* 1.3 because much of the substance is lost, you must use relaxing and mollient fomentations.
Ectropion, is the turning up,
* 1.4 or out of the eye∣lid,
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both their cures are properly performed by chyrurgery. In this last, purge twice or thrice with these pills following.
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* 1.5Pilul. sine quibus, lucis major. ana ʒ. ss. dia∣gridii. gr. ij. fiant pilulae vij. deinde ut ocu∣lum lavaret praecepi vino albo, cui alumen de rocha, in exigua quantitate semel bullitum erat. Deinde palpebram linimento subse∣quenti inungeret jussi.
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* 1.6Tutiae praeparatae ℥.ss. axungiae porcinae cola∣tae ℥.i. ss. camphorae ℈. j. boni ponderis: la∣vetur novies in aqua ros. somni tempore in∣ungatur.* 1.7Forest. Tom. 1. lib. 11. obs. 41.
Notes
* 1.1
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